Mom's Facebook page says FBI has found kidnapped boy

Connor Grabowski-Cracchiolo, the 11-year-old boy last seen on Aug. 27 and believed to have been kidnapped by his father, has been found by the FBI and is in FBI custody, according to the Facebook page of the boy’s mother, Kelly Cracchiolo-Evans.

“Connor has been found!!! FBI has him in their custody. They are not in MI. My boy will be back! YESSSSSSSSS!,” is the quote that was posted on Cracchiolo-Evans Facebook page at about 12:30 p.m. Friday afternoon.

About 20 minutes later Cracchiolo-Evans confirmed she had a brief conversation with an FBI agent informing her that her son was with the proper authorities and that Mark Grabowski, Connor’s father, was also in custody.

“I don’t even know a word that could describe how happy I am,” she said.

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Cracchiolo-Evans said she wasn’t informed what state her son and his father were found in or whether or not she would be picking him up out of state of if he would be back to her.

“I’ll walk to him if I have to though,” she said.

Authorities suspected Connor Grabowski-Cracchiolo had been kidnapped by his biological father, former Detroit Lions player Mark Joseph Grabowski, sometime at the end of August. He was reported missing by his mother, Cracchiolo-Evans.

Cracchiolo-Evans and Grabowski have shared custody of Connor, whose mother said the custody arrangement calls for the boy to spend much of his summer with his father and the school year with her. Cracchiolo-Evans was making arrangements to have Connor returned to her custody for the school year when she discovered Grabowski’s home had been abandoned and his cellphone disconnected.

Earlier today a YouTube video titled “Connor Grabowski NOT KIDNAPPED, I’M FREE,” appeared online. In it, Connor, a fifth-grade student at Richmond Middle School, states he is “out here” with his father though no geographic location is identified.

In the video, shot at a dining table inside a dwelling, the boy states he asked his father, former Detroit Lions prospect Mark Grabowski, to take him away as a “birthday present.”

“I am fine, I was not kidnapped, I came on my own will,” Connor said at the beginning of the 2:38 minute video.

Cracchiolo-Evans said she knew of the video but refused to watch it after hearing how unhappy her son looked and what he was saying.

“I’ll never watch it,” she said. “What choice did he have but to say those things. That amount of stress he was under, I don’t want to see that.”